Large and destructive fire that threatens human life, animal life, health, and/or property

Five men sit smoking round a fireplace, another stands with his back to the fire. Mezzotint after A. van Ostade (?).

South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.

Louisa Mabreé, a French midwife being executed in a cage full of cats above a fire. Coloured aquatint.

Women wearing crinolines which are set on fire by flames from a domestic fireplace. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1860.

The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: two nurses and a patient [?] in front of a guarded fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.

Marriage of Rama to Sita with Brahmins making fire sacrifice. Coloured transfer lithograph.

Three Wallachian men round a log fire with distilling apparatus nearby. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.

A man so engrossed in news of the French Revolution that he unwittingly sets his wig alight with his candle. Etching, 1789.

Saint Peter Celestine: a house is set on fire by devils, but he fights against it with the prayer and the sign of the Cross. Engraving by A. [?] van Merlen.

The city fire at Enschede on 7 May 1862: people are gathered on a bridge and on the bank of a river, soldiers on horse-back are directing them, and they are being given help. Wood engraving by M. Jackson.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector against fires. Engraving by Geoffroy.

Two men play cards at a table as others watch and smoke by the fire. Engraving by J. Michel, c. 1778, after J. Boydell after D. Teniers, the younger.

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood approximately 39 x 50 cm

A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.

Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.

A journal of the plague year, or, Memorials of the great pestilence in London, in 1665 / by Daniel De Foe. Revised edition with historical notes by E. W. Brayley ... Also, some account of the great fire in London in 1666, by Gideon Harvey ... with an appendix containing the Earl of Clarendon's account of the fire. With illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank.

1 photomechanical reproduction : printed in colour ; image 16.4 x 24.9 cm

A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.

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Fires

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A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.

Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector against fires. Engraving by Geoffroy.

A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.

Fires

Images from the collections

Images referencing Fires

Works from the collections

A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.

Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector against fires. Engraving by Geoffroy.

A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.

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